Karl Katzke

Ok, I’m an Apple fanboy. I love my new Macbook, I loved my old powerbook. I love my iMac at work. I’d really like it if I could try out an xServe for 45 or 90 days like the Sun promotions run.

But I didn’t buy an iPhone, and since it seems that every store in the southwestern United States is sold out, it doesn’t look like I’ll get one any time soon. (Way to go Apple planners — you’ve got stores in New York that have iPhones. Most stores in New England have iPhones. But Texas, California, and everywhere else that tech culture with money is concentrated except Seattle? You’re sold out.)

I would like to have an iPhone. I’d kill for a good calendar app that synched with my Google Calendar.
Unfortunately, AT&T sucks. Edge sucks. And limiting the iPhone to one vendor, while great for that vendor, sucks. I want a real 3g phone. I want an infrastructure that won’t collapse under heavy use… iPhone EDGE bandwidth use apparently even crashed AT&T/Cingular’s data center , bringing their website to a halt. (AT&T reps say otherwise — sure, routing issue. That just HAPPENED to coincide with the launch of the iPhone. Yep. Hey, in the sky! Is that a pig? Why’s it blue?!)

So for now, I’ll get a crackberry Pearl or a Blackjack if I end up switching to Verizon from T-Mobile. T-Mobile for whatever reason can’t seem to get good coverage in the southern half of my town, and insists even while I’m dropping calls while on the phone with 4th level tech reps that there’s no issue.